The Quiet Shift That Changed Everything for Me

And It Can Change You Too

The Feeling Eye revealed itself to me in 2016. No, it wasn’t visions of blinding white light in meditation, or dramatic spiritual perceptions that transformed me. It was something quieter. More resonant.

The autumn of 2016 found me between jobs, uncertain what my future career and finances would look like. The old me would have panicked and launched into frantic action—applying for jobs tirelessly, and “figuring things out” with that gnawing feeling that I wasn’t doing enough. You know that feeling?

This time, something was different. There was this quiet knowing inside me saying, “Stop. Listen. There IS another way.” I didn’t know what that meant. But I felt it. This calm certainty that contradicted every survival instinct screaming at me to panic. The knowing felt peaceful. The knowing felt true.

So, I did two things:

1. I meditated for the sake of enjoying meditating. Not because anyone asked me to, or because I wanted a certain outcome.

2. I stopped trying to orchestrate everything and admitted I can’t. I opened myself to what I couldn’t see coming.

What followed was a chain of seemingly serendipitous events: a friend mentioning a book, a YouTube rabbit hole, Facebook comments that led somewhere. Each one pulled me deeper into a dimension I didn’t know I was ready to explore. The resulting shifts were almost imperceptible to me at first.

I knew something BIG inside me had shifted when:

• I felt an inner glow, which wasn’t triggered by anything/anyone external

• Question after question on life started to find an answer within; there was a constant joining of dots inside me, accompanied with thrilling aha moments

• I felt no need to set or achieve goals, seek security, or prove anything. I felt complete, whole, wherever I was. If someone had told me I was dying, my happy last words would have been “I am complete. There’s nothing pending for me.”

• I stopped over-scripting my life, allowing it to unfold

• A persistent inner conviction came over me that everything will work out beautifully for me

The shift also became apparent in my external environment:

• A recruiter approached me for a leadership position that checked every box on my career wishlist at the time—a large organization where systems and processes just work, an engaging cross-functional role, people I wanted to work with, and a financial boost. Here’s the fun part: the official job description was so pleasantly different from the actual role, there was no way I could’ve found it on my own.

• Travelling to Canada had been on my bucket list for a while, and the new job made it happen for me, in a snap, as a part of my onboarding. The memory of that experience is still vivid and surreal in my mind’s eye.

• Bonus: I was selected to travel to an exclusive leadership event in Orlando, U.S. I was among the first cohort of leaders in the country ever to attend this privileged annual offsite event.

• I started to see people at work in their highest potential, and they reflected it back to me in the form of their heightened performance. The kindness and understanding I experienced from colleagues was nothing I would have imagined possible in the conventional corporate world.

• And perhaps most importantly, aside from my career wins, I started writing for myself. A lot! I still do, as an expression of being in flow, even though I don’t publish everything online.

And no, none of it was a one-off stroke of luck. Fast forward to today, I’ve had way too many substantial shifts in different areas of my life to call them serendipitous anymore.

In sharing these experiences, my intent is not to boast of my accomplishments, but to drive home a key point:

Inner alignment trumps external algorithms and systems of success. I say this from lived experience, from watching it unfold in my own life over and over.

Here’s a caveat few will tell you: Life doesn’t become all peaches and cream once this shift happens. You’ll still face contrast and disappointment. But, what you experience births another beautiful preference in you—a new place, a person, a thing, an experience.

The real deal is that once your internal guidance system becomes activated, you feel inwardly empowered to navigate life with a lot more authority, understanding, ownership, confidence, flow, ease, and joy. Life begins to feel more fulfilling.

That’s what The Feeling Eye is about. Not pseudo-spiritual bypassing. Not toxic positivity. Not pretending everything’s fine when your intuition tells you otherwise. It’s conscious awareness of how you’re actually feeling, understanding what that’s telling you about your alignment, and then, from that honest place, POWERFULLY creating a life you want, that doesn’t feel like you’re swimming helplessly against the current.

And once you let your Feeling Eye guide you, you stop searching for the path. You feel it. That’s Inner Alignment, Over Algorithms.

Rishi
@thefeelingeye

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